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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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of thePheasants Dr. Elliot says of the Ring-necked Pheasant: This is the commonspecies of China and is met with ingreat numbers in the eastern parts ofthat vast empire. * * =i^ In most partsof China they keep much to the hill-covers, but about Shanghai they resortto the cotton-fields, and occurring inlarge . numbers, afford excellent sport.;k * * Dj. Lamprey states that the com-mon Ring-necked Pheasant constitutethe fourth and most abundant kindfound in the markets (Tien-Tsin).The number of these birds that aresold every winter is wonderful. It wasnoticed that in birds apparently of thesame age there was frequently a greatdisparity in size, almost giving one theidea of two species, though it is not im-probable that this difference may be at-tributed to the diftercnt circumstancesof food and locality. Mr. Dudley E.Saurin, as quoted by Dr. Elliot, says:The common Chinese Pheasant isfound everywhere in the north of China.I am not aware how nuich farthersouth thev are found than Shanghai;
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I but in that neighborhood, since the de- three species, the common, the Ring- vastation of the country by the Tai- necked and the Japanese pheasants, pings, they are shot by hundreds, naturahzed in England, that at the pres- Thousands are brought down to the ent day it is exceedingly difficult to get Pekin market in a frozen state by the a pure-blooded individual of either of Mongols. According to Dr. Elliot hy- them in that countrybridism has been so general among the WE WERE SEVEN. We were seven when the flush of morning Spread over the Eastern hills,And in spite of our parents warning We roamed at our own free wills. O, sweet as the breath of the roses, The air at the dawning blew,And wafted to seven small noses, An odor so strange and new. An odor that tried and that tempted, And lured from the right at last,A frail band by their craving prompted— Keen-toothed from their night-long fast. So forth on their pitiful message There scampered a reckless crew;I watched by the hole in

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